Competition, Beats in Worldly Life (Gujarati Dadavani April-1999)

As long as there is ignorance, ego is alive and it is constantly under doership of something or the other. 'I am something’; ‘I want to become big'- all this leads one into comparison with others and gives rise to competition. There is nothing wrong with progressing in life but if we do not have the capability to progress then we start thinking about ways to hinder or obstruct other person's progress so that we get ahead of them. It is this kind of competition that causes us to wander life after life. It is the way of Gnani Purush, to win the world by letting the other person win. We see horses running in the race course, what do we have to understand from that? Today a particular horse might have won but he will also lose one day. The one who wants to attain liberation and doesn't want to stop his/her progress should read this edition of Dadavani without fail.